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Editing Assessments

To access the Assessments tool, select the Build tab, and under Course Tools select Assessments.

From the Assessment main screen, click on the gray arrow next to the assessment that you want to edit. Select Edit Properties. The Edit Properties function allows you to edit the assessment in a number of ways.

You can edit the assessment Title, Description, and Visibility.

You can edit the Grade Book column name and the Question Delivery.

You can change the assessment Display, the Duration of the assessment, and Attempts allowed.

You can change the Student score, Statistics release option, and set Goals.

Under More Options you can: set a date and time for the assessment, set result options, provide submission settings, set security properties, and edit custom instructions.

To change the dates available, click on the arrow next to Dates Available.

1. Enter a Start day and time.
2. Enter an End day and time.
3. Select Create a corresponding event in the Calendar, to add the assessment to the calendar.

To set how results are displayed to students, click on the arrow next to Results Properties.

1. You can choose to Show the question text and the Student's response for each question, Show feedback for each question, Show the student's score for each question, Show the student's total score for the assessment, or show the grader comments for the assessment.
2. Enter your email address if you want the results of the assessment to be sent to you.

To change the submissions options, click on the arrow next to Submission Properties.

1. Enter a Message that will be displayed to students once they have submitted their assessment.
2. Enter your email address if you want the results of the assessment to be sent to you.

To set security options to prevent students who are not in the class from accessing the quiz, click on the arrow next to Security Properties.

1. Decide if you want to assign students a password (Proctor password) that they must use in order to access the assessment.
2. Decide if you want to assign an IP address and IP address mask to determine an allowable range of IP addresses from which the assessment can be accessed. This is helpful if you want students to take the assessment from a specific computer lab.

To set custom instructions, click on the arrow next to Custom Instructions.

1. Include some Custom Instructions that will appear at the top of the assessment and are visible to all students.
2. Decide if you want these instructions to appear above every question when delivered one at a time.